CSLR and the cost of Dixon Advisory

This week has seen a big focus on the CSLR, and particularly the cost to the financial advice profession - $18.6m in 2024/25. The underlying story is the issue of the Dixon Advisory business. At last...

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alex.burke

Advisely Team

2 years ago

On your second point, it's oddly fitting that the first (and biggest) contribution to the CSLR's costs has ended up being a perfect representation of the problem with its design – a problem you and others in the industry were very vocal about back when it was first proposed.

It's now a matter of legal record that there were Dixon ARs who did not act in their clients' best interests, but this didn't happen in a vacuum; as you said, they were recommending products from a related entity, and those products received contributions because of that incentive structure.

But at present, the CSLR can't consider the other end of that arrangement – certainly not in terms of a fairer distribution of industry funding obligations, anyway

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